Re: [PATCH] delayed kobject release: help find buggy code

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 11:35:32 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:06:14PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Greg,
>
> This is an updated copy of my delayed kobject release debugging patch
> from 2011, which I notice hasn't hit mainline. Please consider merging
> this so that driver authors and subsystem maintainers have a way to test
> code for kobject refcounting errors.
>
> Moreover, please also consider whether to make the debug option default
> to 'y' when CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled.

Nice, I had forgotten about this code. Have you run it in a while to
see if things still work well?

I'll queue this up for 3.12, my 3.11 trees are now closed.

thanks,

greg k-h
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